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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Lake Charles, LA

August 12, 1996Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 12, 1996, 4:26 PM CDT for Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 64 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Aug 12, 1996, 4:26 PM CDT (21:26 UTC)
Expired: Aug 12, 1996, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Calcasieu Parish, LA

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 12, 4:30 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Moss Bluff, LA

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Lake Charles, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 12, 2:03 PM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 12, 2:03 PM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 11, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jefferson	59 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 1996 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.